Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Deric and DeepSeek R1 on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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This post on an exchange with DeepSeek R1 is a followup on my previous post describing the Chat GPT 4o response to some of my idea fragmen...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Parents convey a male default in child-directed speech

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Interesting open source article describing experiments by Leshin et al .  (Our current MAGA overlords would like to ban such perspectives.) ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Critical fragility in sociotechnical systems

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Here is the abstract and part of the introduction (giving examples of system breakdowns) of a fascinating and approachable analysis by Moran...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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My following exchange with Chat GPT 4o - in which it responds to some of my idea fragments - convinces me that AI's current power to in...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Even more cheerful reading....on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy.

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I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere,  but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Ven...
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Monday, February 03, 2025

“Now Is the Time of Monsters”

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I pass on links to two articles in the same vein, one by Ezra Klein , the other by Ventkatesh Rao , with Klein noting how we are facing four...
Friday, January 24, 2025

How much does language shape our thinking?

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I want to pass on this link to Manvir Singh's article in The New Yorker which has the title of this post.  I enjoyed reading the articl...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The birth of aspirational multiethnic populism

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I have pulled some clips from an excellent substack piece by Yascha Mounk to cement and archive his main points for myself and also pass on...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Is critical race theory an inversion of history?

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John Ellis, who says yes, is a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz (and author of “A Short H...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

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I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this  link to a brilliant lecture by Steven Fry. It is an engaging and entertainin...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Analysis of the dumbing down of language on social media over time

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Di Marco et al. (open source) do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Voat, Reddit, Us...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - how to deal with farting cows...

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I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of  the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and ...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

The Future of Warfare

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Passing on an article from today's WSJ that I want to save, using MindBlog as my personal archive:   OpenAI Forges Tie-Up To Defense ...